Job Title: IT Specialist - Expert Task ID: HBITS-07-14824 Position Duration: 30 Months Client: State of NY Agency: Information Technology Services Please call
(703) 466-0951 | (571) 351-1868 | (703) 348-3018 or email at
[email protected] Description Primary Responsibilities
- Administer, maintain, and support the IBM Workload Scheduler (IWS) environment on IBM mainframe systems.
- Monitor daily workload processing to ensure scheduled jobs, job streams, and dependencies execute successfully and within established service levels.
- Configure, schedule, and manage batch workloads across enterprise applications and platforms.
- Analyze and resolve job failures, scheduling conflicts, resource contention issues, and workload bottlenecks.
- Perform workload forecasting, capacity planning, and schedule optimization to improve operational efficiency.
- Create, modify, and maintain job definitions, calendars, run cycles, workstations, and job streams.
- Support production batch processing, including incident response, troubleshooting, and recovery activities.
- Coordinate with application teams, system programmers, database administrators, and business units to implement scheduling requirements.
- Manage workload dependencies between mainframe and distributed systems.
- Develop and maintain scheduling standards, procedures, and operational documentation.
- Participate in disaster recovery planning, testing, and workload restoration activities.
- Ensure compliance with organizational security, change management, and audit requirements.
- Utilize IBM Dynamic Workload Console (DWC) to monitor, manage, and administer enterprise workloads.
- Configure and maintain DWC dashboards, monitoring views, alerts, and reporting functions.
- Troubleshoot workload execution issues using DWC monitoring and diagnostic tools.
- Support end users and operations staff in the use of DWC scheduling and monitoring capabilities.
- Implement and maintain workload automation policies using DWC administrative functions.
- Generate workload status, performance, and operational reports for management and technical teams. Technical Support and Administration
- Perform installation, configuration, maintenance, and upgrades of IBM Workload Scheduler components.
- Manage scheduling agents, communication links, and workload automation infrastructure.
- Support integration between IWS and enterprise applications, databases, and middleware platforms.
- Implement workload automation best practices to improve reliability, availability, and performance.
- Conduct root cause analysis for recurring scheduling issues and recommend corrective actions.
- Participate in system testing, application deployments, and production implementation activities.
Mandatory Qualifications 1 84 months Experience using administering IBM Workload Scheduler (IWS/Tivoli Workload Scheduler) in a z/OS mainframe environment. 2 84 months Experience using and administering IBM Dynamic Workload Console (DWC) for workload administration and monitoring. 3 84 Months Experience Knowledge of IBM z/OS operations, JCL, TSO/ISPF, SDSF, and batch processing concepts. 4 60 Months Experience workload automation concepts including calendars, dependencies, critical paths, and event-driven scheduling. 5 60 Months Experience troubleshooting batch processing failures and performing production support.
Required Documentation • Resume
• Copy of Candidate Identification
(i.e., Driver's License/Green Card/Visa and Passport if applicable)
• Any documents referenced in the above Requested Qualifications
(i.e., professional certifications, degrees, etc.) 
